William Gilson Farlow
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William Gilson Farlow
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| Born | December 17, 1844 Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Nationality | American |
| Fields | botanist |
| Alma mater | Harvard |
William Gilson Farlow (December 17, 1844 – June 3, 1919) was an American botanist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard (A.B., 1866; M.D., 1870), where, after several years of European study, he became adjunct professor of botany in 1874 and professor of cryptogamic botany in 1879.[1]
Farlow corresponded with Caroline Bingham and Jacob Georg Agardh collaborating in the identification and classification of species of algae previously unknown to science.[2]
In 1899 he was president of the American Society of Naturalists; in 1904 president of the National Academy of Sciences; in 1905 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and in 1911 president of the Botanical Society of America.
He received honorary degrees from Harvard University, the University of Glasgow (LL.D in 1901),[3] and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Among his publications are:
- The Gymnosporangia or Cedar-Apples of the United States (1880)
- Marine Algœ of New England (1881)
- A Provisional Host-Index of the Fungi of the United States (1888)
- Biographical Index of North American Fungi (1905)
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